Dan Hardy

So then we had this back and forth where I'm like, hey, you need to get your facts right.

He approached me and blah, blah, blah.

And I don't know whether that information had already been passed on to people above him to say, Dan Hardy's just approached Herb Dean after the fight.

When in actuality, that just never happened.

And because that was the perspective that the guys in the truck had got, I automatically felt like I'm going to get in trouble here.

I've done something really wrong.

And

I mean, the thing is, it's like, I've been working with that man for a long time, the guy backstage I'm talking about.

I love him, he's a lovely guy, we've always got on.

If I saw him now, we'd have a good conversation.

It was just, you know, it was like heightened experience and just the energy that he came at me with, especially with the misinformation of me now, you know, being the guy that took my headset off and marched over to the door to wait for Herb as he walked out.

I just didn't do that.

Like, I'm there to do my job.

But ultimately, above my job and above everything, UFC and everything included, I'm there to make sure that MMA is stable and the fighters are safe.

Because that's my instinct.

Everybody that gets in that cage is someone's son or daughter or father or brother.

You know what I mean?

And in those moments, the people in the cage, they go from being the best fighters in the world to a very, very human victim that is not being protected by the referee.

And from a fighter's perspective...

I want to feel that warlike feeling when I step in the cage.